This is the first of three articles dealing with three aspects of domestic violence. This first article concerns itself with the incidence, the types and the causes of domestic violence as revealed by most recent research. Violence against women appears to be associated, according to Dasgupta (2004), with women and welfare, poverty, work policies and media.
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